Template:Did you know nominations/Liu Cigui

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 17:42, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Liu Cigui

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• ... that Liu Cigui, the acting governor of Hainan in China, worked as a rusticated youth and studied oceanography?

• Reviewed: Abhishek Bachchan filmography

Created by Zanhe (talk). Self nominated at 07:51, 7 January 2015 (UTC).

• He's not the governor of acting (emended for clarity). New enough at time of submission; barely long enough but seems sourced and well enough done for a minor politico stub; there was a problem with a series of "...in Fujian province", "Fujian province...", "of Fujian province" phrases: it's enough to clarify what Fujian is once in an article and it's unnecessary to keep saying that each city is in Fujian in a paragraph beginning "...worked at various levels of government in Fujian": luckily, the article is still long enough after correcting that; earwig's tool is down but spotchecking doesn't seem to find copyvio apart from translation; no pic; some comma issues but that never killed one of these things. Good to go.
  Comment₁: Good job on linking the Chinese text in the lead but remember not to let the infobox italicize it. If you find providing traditional characters is a pain, pin1yin1 is really helpful. Just set the output to traditional characters and you get everything in an easy-to-paste format.
  Comment₂: It probably is more curious and better for the hook to have 'rusticated youth' (so nothing to change here), but that's just not what they're most commonly called in English. In future articles, I'd say it's more helpful to use zhiqing or "educated youth" (with the quotes) and gloss it: "... one of the youth sent out to work in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution". — LlywelynII 00:55, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
• Comment₃: Although note Talk:Sent-down youth—when another DYK mentioned the term zhiqing it gave the page 5k+ hits because people were curious what he was doing... — LlywelynII 05:08, 14 January 2015 (UTC)